Chapter 20: Sneak Attack

Chapter 20: Sneak Attack

"Platoon commander!"

"Platoon Commander Cui!"

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As soon as Company Commander Li and I walked back, the soldiers surrounded us.

"Platoon commander! Let's ignore that ......" The quick-mouthed Junko was the first to speak, he leaned his rifle on his back fiercely, and said, "Isn't it just a regimental commander?" Or is it an agent, what are we afraid of him doing? It's a big deal to fire us, we just don't need to fight! ”

"Go...... What do you say? I glared at Junko so hard that he didn't dare to say anything more.

"Platoon commander, what Junko said has some sense!" Al Ziri answered: "We are just a soldier, and we are still fighting soldiers, what else can he do with us?" Confinement doesn't allow us to fight? ”

"If you want me to say, our results are obvious!" Yang Songjian couldn't say angrily: "From going abroad all the way to the present, I have won several battles one after another!" If it weren't for Platoon Commander Cui's contributions, I don't know how many more people would die! can rely on him and Head Zhang alone! His mother is really aggrieved, and he will be punished if he wins the battle! ”

"That's what I thought too!" Wu Haiguo also complained about me: "The whole regiment sees the victory we fought, Platoon Commander Cui can be said to have contributed a lot, if he dares to make small moves, let's jointly sue him!" ”

"Yes, jointly sue him!"

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When the soldiers heard this, they agreed and were eager to start writing a joint letter now, but only the people from their hometown sat aside and did not speak.

Looking at the excitement of the soldiers, I couldn't help but feel a pang of emotion in my heart. To be honest, I don't care about any punishment, I have so many years of battlefield experience, and I look down on life and death, how can I care about this punishment. It's just that I'm really a little relieved that these soldiers next to me are not to mention that they were trained by me, and now they are comrades-in-arms who were born and died together......

"Joint letter! It's a beautiful idea! Company Commander Li, who had been silent for a long time and only cared about smoking a cigarette, spoke at this time: "Can you send this letter?" Besides, why do you say that these victories are our own? When the 386 Heights were hit, there were still four companies and six companies, and there were still three battalions led by Commander Zhang on the 339 Heights? ”

Company Commander Li took two more puffs of cigarette with a "horn and horn", and then said: "This battle is good for us!" But can Captain Zhang say that? Did you hear that? This is our personal heroism, we will not save ourselves in the face of death, and we will not obey orders......"

"Obey orders! If we obey orders, we'll be lying on our ground! ”

"That's it! I've never heard of being punished for winning a battle! ”

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"Alright, alright!" Seeing the soldiers fighting again, I waved my hand impatiently and said: "Comrades, don't fight, you don't need to worry about this, it's going to be dark soon, hurry up and lay out the open and dark sentry and lay the mines!" Hurry up and eat and rest, the Vietnamese army is very likely to come to a sneak attack tonight, and you will carry your guns with you when you sleep at night! ”

"Yes!" When the soldiers saw me say this, they answered and dispersed with indignation.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but sigh and realized that this was not just a matter of disposing of Company Commander Li and me, and if it was not handled properly, it would probably lead to instability in the morale of the army.

The soldiers risked their lives to fight on the front lines, which should have left them undistracted to fight the enemy, but now it seems that this is not easy.

Every unfair punishment made by the superior because of his own face, selfishness or interests may leave a shadow in the hearts of the soldiers, and these shadows are enough to make the soldiers lose confidence in their superiors or be distracted on the battlefield, and even pay the price of their lives because of it!

Alas! No matter! The enemy is right in front of him, and he cares so much about what to do!

Thinking that I quickly focused my attention on the sniper rifle in my hand again, no matter how his superiors dealt with him, as long as I still had this gun in my hand, I was very satisfied.

The weather in Vietnam is very strange, in February it is snowy in many parts of China, while in Vietnam it is in the thirties of temperatures. At night, the temperature plummets into the teens. Although a dozen degrees Celsius is not cold, I have tried dozens of degrees below zero in North Korea. But such a large temperature difference between day and night is still a little unbearable.

This is not? During the day, the soldiers were sweating profusely and wanted to go into battle shirtless, but at night they had to be tightly wrapped in marching quilts.

Perhaps it was too tired during the day, so the fighters ate a few biscuits and fell asleep in the trenches. It's no wonder they go to bed so early, this is their first day of fighting, and the previous exercises are exercises, but now the level of tension is still different.

However, it can be seen that the soldiers did not sleep peacefully, all of them tossed and turned, and sometimes some people woke up sweating profusely. After waking up, he looked around for a while, and when he made sure that nothing was wrong, he lay down and went back to sleep.

I don't remember what it was like on my first day on the battlefield, but I don't think it will be easy for everyone to take that first step. There are even quite a few of them who have not managed to make it to this point and sleep in the same trench with us......

After playing with the sniper rifle in my hand for a while, I found a recess that blocked the wind on three sides and sat down, and then untied the army and covered myself. It is located at the junction of two trenches, and the trenches next to it can well block the surrounding mountain wind.

Over the years, I have been able to quickly find a suitable place to sleep in any environment. Fighting a war is a skill, and finding a place to sleep on the battlefield is actually a skill. Because only by taking advantage of all conditions on the battlefield to let your body get enough rest can you maintain your physical strength and let yourself go to the battlefield in the best condition.

I knew this very well, so even though my mind was a little messy at this point, I forced myself to sleep. It's a bit of a mess...... It's because I'm worried that the punishment from my superiors will soon make me leave the company or disrupt it. There is indeed some truth in their words, what punishment can we be afraid of as a soldier who is fighting, and can our superiors let us not fight? But what they didn't know was that the punishment I was most worried about was actually to separate from them or to break up our disobedient company by listening to Commander Zhang's words!

I believe that the fighters were also worried about this, but they didn't say it.

I don't know how long I slept, but I suddenly smelled a faint smell of tobacco. I couldn't help but be startled, and when I opened my eyes, I saw that there was a soldier squatting not far away secretly smoking.

I rushed up to the ground, snatched the cigarette from his mouth and threw it on the ground to extinguish it, and scolded in a low voice: "You don't want to die!" How many times have you said that you should never smoke at night! ”

"Platoon Commander ......"

When I heard the voice, I knew it was Li Shuibo, and the voice was a little choked.

I couldn't help but squat down and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?" ”

Li Shuibo was silent for a while, squeezing out a few words from between his teeth: "I can't forget that Vietnamese female soldier!" It was I who fired the gun, and I killed a woman with a small child! She kept dangling in front of my eyes, shouting, 'Give me back, give me back!' 'I, I'm a fucking animal, what's the difference between me and those devils......"

As he spoke, he buried his head in his hands and cried.

I sat down next to Li Shuibo and asked, "Didn't you always want revenge?" Why do you still feel guilty? ”

Li Shuibo shook his head and replied: "I don't know, I did think about revenge when I shot her, but when I saw her die, I thought about the child in her belly......"

"You can't be blamed for this, this is war!" I smiled bitterly and said, "You're not a person who likes to kill, so revenge won't alleviate the pain in your heart, but will make you more miserable, understand?" ”

"What does the platoon commander mean...... Let me not kill? Li Shuibo looked at me suspiciously and asked, "How can there be a war that doesn't kill people, that's not ......?"

"It's not that you don't kill people!" I shook my head and replied, "But killing for revenge is completely different from killing for survival, think about it!" Also, stop smoking......"

After patting Li Shuibo on the shoulder, I returned to my bed again. What Li Shuibo told him just now is actually not difficult to understand, if as an ordinary soldier, there is nothing wrong with killing the enemy with hatred for the enemy, and maybe it will also arouse their combat effectiveness beyond the search for strength. But as a sniper, the most important thing is to be calm, think and make judgments quickly!

I believe that Li Shuibo is now spinning at the crossroads of ordinary fighters and snipers, and it is up to him which way he will take in the future.

"Boom!" At this moment, there was a sudden explosion.

Mine! Enemy attack!

These two words immediately burst into my mind.

Before we went to bed, in addition to laying open and dark posts around the positions, we also laid mines along some of the necessary routes. In fact, the best sentinel at night is a mine. If it is an open or dark post, no matter how secretive we are, the enemy can detect the slightest clue as long as they look closely, and choose a path that can be avoided.

But landmines are different, and it is undoubtedly quite difficult to spot them on such poor nights. It can not only alert us when the enemy is close to us, and kill and injure some enemies, but also give a kind of shock and psychological pressure to the enemy who sneaks up!

Of course, we have to write down the location of these mines one by one, and wait until dawn the next day to remove them one by one, otherwise it is very likely that we will accidentally bomb our own people and destroy the activities of our army.

It was night, and the explosion was undoubtedly telling us that an enemy was coming. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that some innocent critter accidentally detonated a mine. But when I put my rifle on the trench behind me, I overturned this conclusion. Because in the night, patches of Vietnamese troops were already holding AK47s and roaring towards our position. As he rushed back, he shot at us with his gun in his hand, and the bullets whistled above our heads in an instant. Occasionally, there were a few shells coming from nowhere, and it was impossible to tell whether it was from a bazooka or a mortar.

This is another benefit of the AK47, which is why our army calls it a "submachine gun". Submachine guns and submachine guns are guns that can be charged and fired at the same time. Although the accuracy is really not large, dozens of such assault rifles firing at the same time, plus some fire cover, are enough to form a barrage to partially suppress the opponent's firepower.

Of course, older rifles also have their benefits, such as the Mosin Nagant, which has a longer range and is more accurate. But it can't play the role of the AK47 when charging.

However, the weapons in the hands of the Vietnamese army have been upgraded, and the weapons in the hands of our army have also been replaced. The 56 and a half no longer need to take a shot like Mosin Nagant, and the Type 56 submachine gun can also reach the same firepower as the Soviet-style AK47, not to mention that our army also has light machine guns, four-0 fires, and mortars in its hands......

More importantly, our company not only had a geographical advantage, but was also prepared early on. Therefore, when the bullets went down, the Vietnamese army's flesh and blood flew and screams were everywhere.

I don't know if the soldiers were too nervous to wake up from the nightmare or something, but the battle started before I could give the order. But to be honest, it would be a bit stupid to wait for me to give the order to shoot again. Because the Vietnamese army had already lurked only a hundred meters away from our battle line, it only took a few seconds for them to rush in front of us.

I believe that in this case, it can be said that it will be easy for the fighters to repel the charge of the Vietnamese army. The so-called sneak attack, of course, is to rush to the position and fight us hand-to-hand with us without being prepared. Now that we are all prepared, and the mines have alerted us in advance, this sneak attack is undoubtedly a death, a senseless death.

However, the Vietnamese army did not seem to realize this, and still charged at our position with the rifle in hand, but without exception fell under the rain of bullets and bullets of our army.

So, I was able to try the sniper rifle I had just gotten with a very relaxed mindset.

"Bang!" With a vibration from my right shoulder, a bullet came out of my rifle. In the center, an officer brandishing a pistol and shouting at the Vietnamese army shouted. His head tilted with the inertia of the bullet, and he fell straight to the ground.

He's so easy to recognize, and I don't know if he's trying to show his power or something, everyone else has an AK47 in their hands, but he only has a small pistol that's barely visible. As a result of this unusualness, he had the honor of being the first target of this SVD sniper rifle in my possession.

"Bang!" Another shot rang out, and a single bullet knocked down two Vietnamese soldiers.

These two Vietnamese soldiers are not special people, I just want to test the power of the sniper rifle in my hand. Obviously, even if it is not a dedicated sniper projectile, it can easily penetrate the enemy's body and cause secondary damage.

There were fifteen special sniper rounds, and I carefully wrapped them in a tarpaulin and placed them in a corner of the bullet bag. They are much more powerful than ordinary bullets, both in terms of accuracy and power. I believe that in the future, there will be a possibility of encountering other snipers of the Vietnamese army, and then it will be the time for sniper shells to play a role.

I've got to admit, I love the feeling of shooting. You can test the gun with a live body without pressure, and you can win the battle, so why not? I even had some hope that the Vietnamese army would retreat later. But the Vietnamese army apparently also found that the sneak attack had failed, so they retreated like a tide into the night after a while......

"Bang!" This time it was a red flag bearer who fell! More than 400 meters away!

The Vietnamese army even had a red flag bearer...... In this era, even our army has rarely brought this kind of thing that is likely to increase the casualties of the troops into the battlefield anymore, and the Vietnamese army still charges with it.

However, it is not surprising that the tactics of the Vietnamese army were influenced to a considerable extent by the Soviet Union and China. It should be said that more tactics are learned from China, and more weapons and equipment come from the Soviet Union, so it is inevitable to overemphasize "spiritual omnipotence" like our army.

Perhaps, he knew the weapons of our army very well, and the distance of more than 400 meters was beyond the range of the Type 56 rifle, and it was also in the dark. He thought that no one could hit him at this distance, so he raised the red flag high, as if to lead this force to "return triumphantly......

But what he didn't expect was that I was holding an SVD rifle, and the distance of more than 400 meters was a piece of cake for it.

However, the courage of the Vietnamese army is indeed very surprising, and the red flag bearer was able to hold on to the red flag without falling down after being killed by me......

"Bang bang ......" There were two more gunshots, and the two Vietnamese soldiers burst out of their chests with a bloody light on their chests and fell to the ground.

Obviously, they were trying to grab the red flag, but my bullet managed to stop them.

At this time, the scene that surprised me and the soldiers appeared, the Vietnamese army, who was just about to retreat, launched another attack on our position, machine guns, mortars, AK47...... All of them were crazy and shot indiscriminately at our positions, and there was even a platoon of Vietnamese troops who desperately launched a charge towards our positions......

A platoon? Charge again?

I really don't understand the actions of the Vietnamese army this time, they had at least two companies in their last charge, so many people let us fight easily, what else can this platoon do?

When I saw more than a dozen Vietnamese soldiers on the other side fluttering at the red flag, I knew what they wanted to do! They're for that red flag!

No matter what they want to do, there is no reason not to eat the fat meat in their mouths. I quickly raised the rifle in my hand and fired all the bullets at the Vietnamese soldiers who were grabbing the red flag, but when I reloaded a magazine and aimed again, the red flag had disappeared from my sight.

I can understand their behavior of grabbing the red flag, because our army was also like this during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, and I am also a person from the past. But it's a bit puzzling to be the same in a small battle in this modern war!

But that's fine, it means that I have one more target to use on the battlefield in the future!